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	Podcast:		Sporting Witness
	Episode:		Lucy Ejike - Nigeria's powerlifting hero
	Category:		Sports & Recreation
	Duration:		00:08:58
	Publish Date:		2020-09-03 03:00:00
	Description:		Lucy Ejike is Nigeria’s most successful female paralympian and the winner of gold medals in para-powerlifting at three different Paralympic Games. Ejike’s twenty-year career has been marked by her rivalry with her friend Fatma Omar of Egypt, whom she finally defeated with a world-record lift at the 2016 games in Rio. She talks to Iain Mackness. The programme is a Made-In-Manchester Production. PHOTO: Lucy Ejike in 2017 (Getty Images)
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